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    True. Sadly, I go all the way back to SubLogic's FS1 for the Apple II released in 1980. Even that very first version had a "game element", an aerial battle called "British Ace". The point is: you can use a serious flight sim for gaming (if that is what you want), but you cannot use a game for serious flight simming. And MS Flight did have the potential to be a serious flight sim.
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    I stand corrected. It is indeed FSX, not Flight, that allows you to drop flour bombs in its missions. :lol:
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    Exactly. It is a real shame that so many of the "hard core simmers" got obsessed with the arcade features of MS Flight. Unfortunately, the full potential of MS Flight was never unleashed, for reasons we can only regret. Whatever the new licensee decides, I simply hope it will be a brand new flight sim with no explicit references at all to either FSX or Flight (because you are never going to please the old crowd).
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    Of course, how else is he going to pay for that two week cruise in the Med with no Internet connectivity... :Money Eyes:
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    I believe that is what the original MS Flight team wanted all along. They're not to blame for the dreadful marketing fiasco.
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    simflight.com, well-known amongst European simmers, and usually very reliable. (ah, Ray beat me to it)
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    Latest buzz says MS is only selling the MS Flight franchise !?
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    I'm hoping ... Bruce Artwick
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    Yeah, I always wondered why they didn't put an inertial navigation system into the Icon. Makes it really so ... well ... dull :rolleyes:
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    Heimi & Hook: Thx for the replies - obviously there's a lot of unopened potential in Flight (but I'm not about to open a can of worms here). We'll have to make do with what we've got. fridbergj: I do believe Flight dinstinguishes between landings and crashes, although in my case the difference isn't always that obvious :lol:
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    Probably old news to most of you, but I just figured out that any landing anywhere counts as an official landing. Land on the grass, on the beach, on a roof, on water ... they all count. That opens perspectives to increase your number of landings - just hop around the countryside until you're tired of it. Still, I must say I'm a bit disappointed ... as I am by the fact that Flight doesn't include some kind of "landing analysis". Oh well ...
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    Hey, that's cheating! Anyway, the real challenge is repeating the proces in the width of the runway OK, OK, based on that bearded joke: Pilot exclaims, "This must be the shortest runway I've ever landed on!" Copilot looking left and right, "Yeah, and about the widest, too..." :Yawn:
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    Long URL - hope it works http://www.faa.gov/about/office_org/headquarters_offices/ato/service_units/systemops/fs/alaskan/alaska/fai/arpt_photo_arc/cooksu/images/4Z9-a.jpg
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    You can always start from a different airfield.
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    Blame it on realism then I'm surprised Luis Feliz Tirado hasn't responded to this. As he explains here https://news.microsoftflight.com/blogs/news/archive/2012/10/05/community-guest-blog-the-winds-in-flight-by-luisft.aspx, the Maule’s Maximum Demonstrated Crosswind Component is right on the panel on a placard: Maule M7-260C Orion - 12 kts (14 mph)
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    The only problem I had with this one is that it is actually spelled "lokowaka" pond ! PS: apparently this was alreayd AOTD on March 27th https://plus.google.com/103242523324036094862/posts/K6jkcCJ13sE#103242523324036094862/posts/K6jkcCJ13sE And completely OT: has Loki left the building? That doesn't bode well :(
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    True, but it's very difficult to miss the two stacks, and I mean that quite literally - almost flew into one of them
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    FAIK, once you subscribe as a member, you remain a member, even if you have gone to the Happy Hunting Grounds since.
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    Well, that's the whole point. Most other things being so d**n good, makes the imperfections stand out more. Couldn't agree more.
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    I don't always understand the (star) rating system. This one was very easy (after a google map search).
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    That was my initial understanding too, but he probably meant to say: "If only MS had decided to cancel Flight after the release of NYC as DLC, which may or may not have been in the near future". BTW, on a recent but not so powerful laptop with all settings maxed, Honolulu in Flight isn't exactly a slide show, but one does loose a bit of the fluency. But still a lot better than FSX
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    I don't think "subsidising" is the correct word. MS would still be making money, but less than it could by investing the same recources in a different, more profitable project. In economics terms, "profits" from MS Flight (Simulator) would be "opportunity costs" to MS.
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    Well, to be perfectly honest with you, I have a tendency to exaggerate. Those lessons were actually quite good (except that you couldn't understand a word Rod said because of bad sound recording). But still, the AI in the FS2000 lessons did have some strange quirks.
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    Had a similar experience. Reminds me a bit of the Rod Machado lessons in ol' MS FS2000. Greasing the landing made Rod angry, while almost crashing the plane made him happy. Artificial intelligence isn't all it's cracked up to be. Or is that Rod's intelligence at work, even in Flight?
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    Ab-so-lu-te-ly. Real world pilots use those aerocache indicators all the time :lol:
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